Hame and trace connector.



PATENTED AUG. 16, 1904.

HAME AND TRACE CONNECTOR.

APPLICATION mum D110. 1. 1903.

F. A. KLAPPAUF, G. WEINZAEPFLEN & A. RIBER.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 16, 1904.

FERDINAND ANTON KLAPPAUF,

CHARLES WEINZAEPFLEN, AND

ALPHONSE RIBER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HAME AND TRACE CONNECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,758, dated August 16, 1904.

\ Application filed December '7, 1903. Serial No. 184,142. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FERDINAND ANTON KLAPPAUF, a citizen of the United States, and CHARLEs WEINZAEPFLEN and ALPHoNsE RI- BER, subjects of the Emperor of Germany, all residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Hame and Trace Connector, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which corresponding numerals of reference in the diflerent figures indicate like parts.

Our invention relates to hame and trace connectors as are used in horse-collars .for connecting and disconnecting the trace respectively to and from the collar and more specif ically to and from the hames. We preferably use this hame and trace connector in a certain horse-collar invented by us and made the object of a patent application filed October 1 1, 1903, Serial No. 177,035; but we propose to use this hame and trace connector also in all such other horse-collars as are constructed so as to permit and make desirable its adaption. We furthermore employ our contrivance for numerous other purposes in place of connecting or coupling devices of diiferent designand construction, and We especially use our connector also for connecting the traces to the vehicle.

The object of our invention is a simple and rigid construction of a hame and trace connector that can be easily handled and is safely protected against accidental disconnection.

We attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a rear view of one of the hames of a horse-collar. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through a part of the hame and trace connector. Fig. 4 is another vertical section through the same at right angles to Fig. 3, the swivel-socket being turned sidewise, this figure explaining the method of connecting and disconnecting the traces respectively to and from the collar. Fig. 5 is a rear view of the hame and trace connector.

1 is one of the hames of the horse-collar, to

which is fastened,preferably by means of bolts or screws, a stationary bracket 2, being provided with one stationary socket 3 and one swivel-socket 4. The latter can swing on a pivot 5, the motion, however, being limited by means of a'disk6 and a washer 7, as will easily be understood from Figs. 3 and 5. The swivelsocket I has on one side a slot 8 and is provided with a spring 9, held in place by means of a pin 10. The two sockets 3 and 4 pivotally support, by means of the pegs l1 and 12, the movable bracket 13, having a .web 14 and two arms 15 and 16, supporting a bolt 17. To the latter is connected in any wellknown manner the trace. The web 14. is a trifle thinner than the slot 8 is wide. By turning the movable bracket 13 in the position indicated in Fig. 4: it may be moved upward, the web 1 1 sliding up into the slot 8 and the peg 12 sliding into the swivel-socket 4, thereby compressing the spring 9. By thus lifting the movable bracket high enough the peg 11 may be put into or removed from the socket 3, thereby making it possible to connect or to disconnect the movable bracket 13 respectively to and from the stationary bracket 2.. It will be understood that the latter may be connected in a different way to the hames or to the horse-collar or to any other suitable object and that its'shape may be modified according to the mode of such connection. Also'the shape, of the movable bracket 13 may be modified according to the mode of its connection to the trace or to any suitable object.

We claim- 1. In a connecting mechanism two brackets movable with respect to each other and adapted to be disconnected from each other at will, one provided with a stationary socket and a swivel-socket with spring andslot, the other provided with pegs fitting to and supported by the said sockets,,the spring being inside of the swivel-socket and adapted to press one of said pegs into the stationary socket, the slot being in the wall of the swivel-socket and adapted to allow of the said peg being removed from said stationary socket when turned into a certain position in relation to swivel-socket, both sockets being adapted to the posltion of the said slot, for disconnecting allow 01 a disconnection of one bracket from the said two brackets from each other. the other at will, and the movable bracket be- 2. In a hame and trace connector astationing adapted to be connected With a trace.

5 ary bracket With a stationam socket and a FERDlNANI) ANTON KLAPPAUF.

swivel-socket provided With spring and slot, CHARLES WEINZAEPF'LEN. combined with a movable bracket provided ALPIIONSE R'IBER.

With pegs fitting to and supported by the said l/Vitnesses: sockets, the spring being inside of the swivel- H. VON DAMMERING,

l0 socket and the slot being in the Wall of the J. P. HAND. 

